Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Great men have great dogs.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Government is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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